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Anonymous Monk
<p> Thanks Guys</P>
<P> the header is on the first line of my file so I'm doing the following</P>
<p>perl -pe 's/([0-9]{10})$/sprintf("%010d", $1-2)/e if $. ==1' TONYFILE.DAT </P>
<p> for some reason it's not changing the count...it's still 496</P>
<p> any idea what i'm missing here? </P>
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